The VP of Digital tells us that, in the sports media landscape, most of the apps out there are from broadcasters or the leagues themselves, so that once fans get past MLB and ESPN apps, there's not a lot quality outside of geeky, fantasy baseball apps.
The more sports broadcasters there are, the better for sport.
Within the new digital specifications there are several formats that broadcasters can use to transmit.
There are TV broadcasters from France, London and Tokyo, and Canadian national radio is broadcasting portions of the concert live.
With Netflix and Amazon, I think there are 94 broadcasters, to use a conventional word, making drama in America.
"So the fact that there are more broadcasters showing them is only a good thing as far as we're concerned".
Here it is much harder to get a show made, there are less broadcasters than say the US – therefore if a show is greenlit, it has had a good development process.
The BBC's drama chief, Ben Stephenson, told journalists last month: "With Netflix and Amazon, I think there are 94 broadcasters, to use a conventional word, making drama in America..
Selling on a pan-European basis would see the successful bidder – which is still likely be Sky, as there are few broadcasters who could operate at this level – distribute its packages, possibly via sub-licensing, at a similar price across the continent, thereby limiting the saving available to publicans and consumers in the UK.
While the one-size-fits-all model is probably not be optimized for all its different customer groups: There are certainly broadcasters who could afford to pay more — and would — and there are consumers who would sign up if only VideoBlocks were priced a little more cheaply.
